Posted January 22nd, 2007 in SEO |
Basically it appears that due to the SEOs (and like contests), Wikipedia has finally decided to make a move that some anticipated would come to pass. While I personally have never concerned myself with gaming Wikipedia or even trying to gain their links, I know many that have. While I can see this hurting a bit with the loss of some link love, I think a primary benefit remains, the traffic that comes through these links.
Due to Wikipedia’s SE love, it appears many sites are able to take advantage of some good quality traffic coming through their links within the big wiki. So I am not going to knock them for this move. I think it was rather smart and something they should have done long ago. As far as web resources go, it is excellent and this move should help it remain that way.
This was a dumb move IMO penalizing all of us non spammers
I also think it was necessary. If they can’t ensure the quality, and provide an editorial process where all the links are vetted, then they should nofollow. And, this is exactly what the nofollow is meant for, when a site has links that they can’t guarantee the quality through an editorial process.
It’s not about penalizing non-spammers. It’s about being honest that they can’t control the quality of the links. Have you seen the list of banned spammers they have? Seems to grow by several hundreds per day. Amazing.
Personally, i don’t care about follow or nofollow, i write orginal content i and i wanted to add some of my article links to wiki, it was about Computer BSODs and i got nice traffic. But it doesnt make any effect to pr calculation.
i couldnt understand nofollow, follow, external nofollow links but i know every link is usefull for websites.